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Copyright Non-Practicing Entities and the Group Registration Process for Photographs COMMENT I WANT TO BE A NON-PRODUCER: COPYRIGHT NON-PRACTICING ENTITIES AND THE GROUP REGISTRATION PROCESS FOR PHOTOGRAPHS JACK VIDOVICH* TABLE OF CONTENTS In trodu ction ............................................................................................... 680 I. The Rise of the Internet and Its Effects on Copyrights .................. 686 A. High Fidelity to the Law: Technology's Influence on Copyright ...................................................... 686 B. Basic Economics of Intellectual Property ........................... 689 C. Economics of the Internet and Digitization ....................... 690 II. The Group Registration Process at the Copyright Office .............. 691 A. The Purpose of Group Registration .................................. 691 B. The Process of Group Registration .................................... 692 C. Notice and the Group Registration Process ....................... 693 D . The Alaska Stock Loophole .................................................. 694 J.D. Candidate, 2015, American University Washington College of Law. I would like to thank Professor PeterJaszi for his invaluable guidance and insight. I would also like to thank Professors Brandon Butler, Robert Kasunic, and Amanda Leiter for their valuable feedback on various sections of this Comment. All errors are the author's and the author's alone. Although this is unorthodox, the author's note is a salient place to demonstrate one of the points of this Comment. I had initially requested that the name be left blank, but I agree with the editors that explaining my thought process instead is more informative. If the Administrative Law Review had not provided my name, how would the general public determine who authored and owned this work? Additionally, if the law review had not indicated any copyright formalities, would that affect how the public believed it could use this work? ADMINISTRATIVE LA WREVIEW [66:3 III. Springtime for NPEs: A Favorable Technological and E conom ic C lim ate .......................................................................... 695 A. The Problem with NPEs .................................................... 695 B. How N PEs O perate ........................................................... 697 C . N PEs' T hreat V alue .......................................................... 700 IV . Proposed Solutions ......................................................................... 704 A . Law ................................................................................... 70 5 B . Social N orm s...................................................................... 711 C . Architecture ....................................................................... 713 1. Mandatory Digital Filing and Metadata ..................... 714 2. Reverse Image Search Engine ..................................... 717 D. Completing the Circuit: The Death of the Author and Working around Alaska Stock .............................................. 719 C on clusion ................................................................................................. 723 INTRODUCTION In the Academy Award-winning 1967 comedy, "The Producers," protagonists Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom try to make a fortune by using shrewd business tactics to produce a guaranteed flop. ' Copyright non- practicing entities (NPEs), organizations that threaten infringers to induce 2 quick settlements, operate similarly when it comes to online photographs. A digital photo that may have little real market value on its own can be shrewdly managed and transformed into a profitable work with the threat of infringement proceedings. This tactic causes problems for society and the economy, which become even more complicated with the introduction of the group registration process for photos headed by the United States Copyright Office. The legal field is littered with examples of NPEs abusing loopholes in the current law. Notably, the Copyright Office currently does not require a list of all authors' names in a group registration of photos3 or any type of formality, such as a notice of copyright and date. 4 Other loopholes that aid NPEs include the ability to cite high statutory damages in threatening letters. 5 Settlements deprive innocent infringers of the substantial and 1. The Producers, INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE, http://www.imdb.com/title/ tt0063462/?ref =fn-al tt_2 (last visitedJune 2, 2014). 2. Cf Richard Chirgwin, Copyright Troll Prenda Law Accused of Seeding Own Torrents, THE REGISTER (June 6, 2013), http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/06/forensics- reveal_moreon.prenda lawstrolling-techniques/. 3. Infra Part II.D. 4. Infa note 161 (discussing the removal of formalities by the Berne Convention). 5. See infra Part III.C (discussing non-practicing entities' (NPEs') abuse of statutory damages). 2014] COPYRIGHTNON-PRACTICING EN7T77ES procedural safeguards of a trial. Righthaven LLC, a notorious NPE, filed a complaint against twenty- year-old blogger Brian Hill, claiming that Hill infringed one of the firm's copyrights when he reposted photos on his blog. 6 Hill could either face an expensive and uncertain trial with damages potentially reaching $150,000 if he is found guilty of willful infringement, or settle with Righthaven for $6,000. 7 NPEs do not always take this extreme damages approach, yet they use similar tactics to extract lower settlements. 8 Another NPE named Copyright Enforcement Group sued a fan that posted a photo of Lindsey Lohan to a celebrity fan site. 9 The same group went after bloggers who used unlicensed photos to decorate their blogs, demanding $500 for each infringing photo. 10 This Comment's thesis is not that the previously discussed actions do not constitute infringement-they do, with some exceptions." 1 But they are cases of "innocent infringement,"' 12 in which the infringing party is usually unaware that what she is doing is illegal, 13 or cases in which fair use, an exception to infringement, applies. Ignorance is no excuse to break the 6. Constance Boutsikaris, Comment, The Rise of Copyright Trolls in a Digital Information Economy: New Litigation Business Strategies and 7heir Impact on Innovation, 20 COMMLAW CONSPECTUS 391, 391 (2012). 7. Id. 8. Mark A. Lemley & A. Douglas Melamed, Missing the Forestfor the Trolls, 113 COLUM. L. REV. 2117, 2126 (2012) (suggesting that smaller suits comprise an increasing segment of patent NPE suits). 9. Mike Masnick, Copyright Trolls Now Going After Random Bloggers Who Reposted Photos, TECHDIRT (July 11, 2013, 9:32 AM), http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130615/ 02094123486/copyright-trolls-now-going-after-random-bloggers-who-reposted photos.shtml; see also PATRICIA AUFDERHEIDE & PETERJASZI, RECLAIMING FAIR USE: How TO PUT BALANCE BACK IN COPYRIGHT 179 (2011) [hereinafter RECLAIMING FAIR USE] (arguing there may be a fair use defense if the user has a "repurposing reason" for posting Lohan's photo on a fan site). 10. Houstonlawy3r, CEG-TEK Is Now rour Friendly "Photo" Copyright Troll, TORRENTLAWYER (June 13, 2013), http://torrentlawyer.wordpress.com/2013/06/13/ceg- tek-akm-images-gsi-media-photo-image-copyright-trolls/. 11. To prove infringement, the claimant must show (1) ownership of a valid copyright, here a photo, and (2) unauthorized copyright of constituent parts of the original photo. See Masterfile Corp. v. Gale, No. 2:09-cv-966, 2011 WL 4702862, at *1 (D. Utah Oct. 4, 2011) (citation omitted). 12. 17 U.S.C. § 907 (2012). 13. This is not to imply that all parties pursued by NPEs are entirely innocent or ignorant. See, e.g., Brad A. Greenberg, Copyright Trolls and Presumptively Fair Uses, 85 U COLO. L. REV. 53, 83 (2014) ("Typically, the infringement is committed by those likely to think that copyright protection is much narrower in scope than it actually is and that a use is permissible if accompanied by any single factor cutting in favor of fair use."). ADMINISTRATIVE LA WREVIEW [66:3 law, but it would be Kafkaesque to leave the current legal system in place. 14 A system that grants unbalanced power to entities that do nothing to further artistic or scientific progress is absurd, and the Copyright Office should take the necessary steps to ameliorate this situation. The issue is one of fundamental fairness: should innocent infringers pay such high damages for such insignificant infringements, and should NPEs be allowed to continue exploiting the current copyright system unimpeded? NPEs obtain copyrights to works they did not create (hence the moniker "non-practicing") and enforce these rights against infringers. 15 At first glance, this practice does not appear problematic, 16 but its praxis is more insidious than the mere enforcement of a right to sue. NPEs use the threat of a lawsuit to induce quick settlement awards without the safeguards of a trial. Because most of these claims never make it to court, there is a dearth of public record on NPE tactics.' 7 Thus, when discussing NPEs' practices and how they take advantage of the group registration process for photos, it is necessary to speak somewhat speculatively and analogize the actions of NPEs in the patent forum. The process of suing for infringement consists of several steps and is further complicated by the group copyright registration process, which is commonly used in the digital photography context. 18 For any infringement proceeding, a work must first be registered with the Copyright Office. 19 14. Peter Singer, The Drowning Child and the Expanding Circle, NEW INTERNATIONALIST (Apr. 1, 1997), httf://newint.org/features/1997/04/05/drowning/
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